Euthyphro Analysis: The Allegory Of The Cave

Sabrina Hill

June 29, 2017

Adam Pave

Phil 101 Euthyphro Analysis Paper

After reading The Allegory of the Cave we see how the journey of the truth unfolds. Euthyphro also takes a similar road to the truth. Both, Allegory of the cave and Euthyphro are very similar in the ways that they both are in search of this truth. Ignorance and wisdom are both brought about in these texts. Both Explore and face many struggles to this light. The Allegory of the Cave helps in the understanding of the Euthyphro text because it sets us in the right direction on the discovery to the truth where we learn how ignorance can prevent you from gaining wisdom. The text lays out some more in depth examples, it also looks at both wisdom and ignorance in a similar

The story of prisoners being chained up gave me a better understanding. After one of the prisoner breaks free, he can come forward to the light. After being in the dark for so long, he has now found the truth of what lies ahead. In the Allegory of the Cave the distinction between dark and light is clear. The darkness in the cave is a place where nothing is meaningful yet alone truthful. In the text he writes, “Then the prisoners would in every way believe that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of those artifacts” (The Allegory of the Cave 515c). After being in the cave for so long the prisoners don’t realize that there is truth apart from what they know. Since childhood all they knew was this cave and of nothing else. To them, this is their only truth. After one prisoner breaks free, he can pass the shadows and make it to the light and all it can introduce. After hitting the light, he opens his world to wisdom and is ready to explore. He learns that shadows had reason. He notices the sun and what it provides. Staying in the light would bring him wisdom unlike the ignorance in the cave. He was able to make his way to the light and be open to what he should find. This helped me understand Euthyphro a little better because in that text he is one who not wanting to learn more. He looks at Socrates as if he knows more than him and how dare he keep asking him questions. While Socrates is trying to get him to

She ends up having a child who ends up only knowing shadows from the one window they had in their room ceiling. Once she convinces him that there is life outside of the room he can escape and ends up being shocked, scared and clueless to what he is seeing. He almost doesn’t get away because he doesn’t believe that there is life outside. This reminds me about the prisoners, how they don’t know about life outside of the tunnel and it also makes me think of Euthyphro because he isn’t open to look beyond what he knows just like the child in the film but fortunately he overcomes that ignorance and decides to see what is on the other side of the door which ultimately saved his and his mother’s